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Re:Will We Ever Get Fusion Power? by medoc on Saturday June 29, 2024 @07:00AM (#40829383)
> You still get solar power on cloudy days, it just takes more panels to generate some specific level of power. That is wrong. On cloudy winter days the inverters often just stop. Source: have 20kW of panels on a house in the south of France.
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Re:Will We Ever Get Fusion Power? by Retric on Saturday June 29, 2024 @07:24AM (#40829531)
That’s a technical problem on your end. I still get electricity on cloudy days when the panels are covered in inches of snow.

Now my personal power output does tank during this period, but such extremes are local events. Further hydro, nuclear, and geothermal just don’t care about clouds.

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Re:Will We Ever Get Fusion Power? by beAbU on Saturday June 29, 2024 @11:25AM (#40831240)
Theres something wrong with your setup. I get about 10-15w of production in the dead of night with a full moon. Source: 5.5kW of panels on a house in South Africa.
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